Kayla and Ciaran met on one of their first days at Duke University in the Fall of 2015. Ciaran was on the men's soccer team and Kayla was on the women's team and they quickly became friends. Their friendship grew stronger over the years until finally in the summer of 2018 they decided to start dating! Ciaran graduated from Duke a semester early and went back to his home country of Scotland and signed a professional football contract. Kayla finished school and left in February to play professional soccer in Texas. After doing long distance for two years, Kayla moved to Scotland in 2021 to play with a team there so they could live closer together. On Kayla's birthday, September 3rd of 2021, Ciaran asked if she would spend the rest of her life with him. It was the easiest "yes"!